Point and Shoot

2014

US

15

Directed by: Marshall Curry

Written by: Marshall Curry

UK release: 16 January 2015

Documentary about – and partly by – Matt VanDyke, a Baltimore filmmaker who joined the Arab Spring revolutions on the side of the insurgents. At no point does director Curry dare to plunge into VanDyke's motivations for fighting against Gaddafi's forces and the overall effect is flat, meaningless and curiously rehearsed.

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You can tell a lot about a documentary from its closing frames. In Point and Shoot the Oscar-nominated writer-director Marshall Curry asks a summing-up question of his subject Matt VanDyke, an OCD-suffering Baltimore filmmaker turned Arab Spring…